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Orange-bellied euphonia        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Euphonias are small fruit-eaters closely related to finches; these are orange-bellied euphonias (the female is cryptic olive-green).   They were coming to a small fruiting tree in San Pedro, at about 1500 m altitude on the Manu Road in southeastern Peru.   Other species feeding on these fruits included a number of tanagers (paradise, palm, silver-beaked, orange-eared, golden, golden-eared, golden-naped, spotted, beryl-spangled, bay-headed, blue-necked, saffron-crowned, and common bush-tanager), and in addition to the tanagers, versicolored barbets and blue-naped chlorophonias.

  • Canon 1D4 0r 7D2; 500 mm IS lens or 800 mm IS lens plus 1.4X or 2X extender, fill-in flash (2013, 2014, 2016)